The curve is still out there: A reply to Bushman, Wang, and Anderson's (2005) "Is the curve relating temperature to aggression linear or curvilinear?"

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-70

  Cohn, Ellen G ^a   Rotton, James ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Temperature; Violence

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; VIOLENCE;

AGGRESSION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 23844517023     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.89.1.67     Document Type: Review

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